No, man. There was STOUT **before** the event. There was so much STOUT that people were lazy and fat with it; they poured of the stout and ate of the grapes and devoured of the fry and the broiled meat. And if that wasn't enough, they turned on STOUT and questioned its power. Questioned its power. Are we to have another dark age, I ask you? Are we? ----------------------BA

Yeah you'd like to think that they had some stout in the dark ages -- dark for your darkness? -- because once you got into charlemagne and garibaldi and bismarck and whatnot (to say nothing of the belch-ians) it was all pale ale and grim reaper. BA

APPEARANCES WITH HETERODYNE IMPROVISATIONAL MUSIC PROJECT

I have appeared several times (as “Words”) with the Heterodyne improvisational music project, which is led by Maria Shesiuk and Ted Zook. Other performers have included Sarah Hughes, Leah Gage, Doug Kallmeyer, Bob Boilen, Sam Lohman, Amanda Huron, and Patrick Whitehead. Here are three free sample recordings, each about 30 minutes long, available on Soundcloud: